Barron’s on Next-Gen Givers

For those interested in civil society, non-profits, and social entrepreneurship it is a clear that there is a new kind of philanthropist on the scene these days. Barron’s offered a piece last weekend titled Next-Gen Givers, by Suzanne McGee. From the article,

Already, these givers look to be more generous than their forebears. A survey conducted by Northern Trust, the private-banking concern, revealed that Generation-X millionaires (aged 28 to 42) gave an average of $20,000 to worthy causes in 2006, double the size of giving by their parents and grandparents. Take that, boomers.

I see a lot of this ethos among my classmates in Phil Auerswald’s class on Social Entrepreneurship. While I’m not sure how many in the class are millionaires, they are connected by a generational desire to have an impact directly. Not to wait and not to do things as they have always been done in trying to solve global problems.